Ben Zinn

Ben T. Zinn (; born April 21, 1937) is an American academic in engineering and former international soccer player. He is the David S. Lewis Jr., and Regents' Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Biography Ben T. Zinn was born as Ben Tzion Cynowicz in Tel Aviv in 1937; his parents had moved there from Poland in 1936. Zinn's grandparents and twelve uncles and aunts all died in Nazi concentration camps. Zinn played soccer for New York University where he averaged 3.2 goals per game, He also played part-time for New York Hakoah in the American Soccer League. Zinn made one official appearance on May 28, 1959, for the United States men's national soccer team, in an 8–1 defeat to England. Zinn was also a member of the national team squad for unofficial games on a number of other occasions. When Zinn became a professor at Georgia Tech in 1965, he turned down an invitation to join the Israel national side, professional soccer contract in the NASL from the Atlanta Chiefs, and an invitation to try out as a field kicker for the Atlanta Falcons. He began his forty-year association with Georgia Tech in 1965. Zinn is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Zinn was awarded the George Westinghouse Gold Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2006. Zinn also holds thirteen patents. Georgia Tech's combustion laboratory is named after Zinn.